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...o them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a po... ...nd produce it—I would that thou wert favourably disposed, for they are all instruments of great good to the State, placing be- fore us at every step a... ...eighteen years of age; he has been for six at Salamanca studying Latin and Greek, and when I wished him to turn to the study of other sciences I found... ...is reason: the great poet Homer did not write in Latin, be- cause he was a Greek, nor did Virgil write in Greek, because he was a Latin; in short, all... ...n front of it. They heard, too, the pleasant mingled notes of a variety of instruments, flutes, drums, psalteries, pipes, tabors, and timbrels, and as... ...n separate bands, some dancing, others singing, others playing the various instruments already mentioned. In short, it seemed as though mirth and gaie... ..., shouting, to receive the bride and bridegroom, who were approaching with musical instruments and pageantry of all sorts around them, and accompanied...

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...ched arms. On either side of him are ranged three or four angels, with the instruments of the Passion. Beneath him, in the second frieze, stands the a... ... accompanied with two sheets of thin paper, three wafers, and one of those instruments of torture which pass in France for pens,—these being the utens... ...fatal progres- sion, the dark rigidity, of one of the tragic dramas of the Greeks. Jean Calas, advanced in life, blameless, bewil- dered, protesting. ... ... is so associated with a charming facial oval, a dark mild eye, a straight Greek nose, and a mouth worthy of all the rest, that it conveys a presumpti... ...ectory) dur- ing which the treasure could not be shown. The purpose of the musical chimes to which I had so artlessly listened was to usher in this fr...

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... may seek in vain for plastic grace, the swing of comedy, dramatic action, musical genius, or the bold flight of ode and epic. On the other hand, the ... ...y projecting or retreating to the depth of an inch, giving the effect of a Greek moulding. The glass panes, which were small and dia- mond-shaped, wer... ...o showed surprise at her ignorance, that her husband constantly im- ported instruments of physical science, valuable materials, books, machinery, etc.... ...the exorbitant price of certain rare chemicals, and finally by the cost of instruments made to order after the designs of Monsieur Claes himself. The ... ...is disappearing. Now-a-days everything is changing; furniture is made from Greek models; wherever you go you see helmets, lances, shields, and bows an... ... Claes in a voice of thunder. The old man appeared. “Go up and destroy all—instruments, apparatus, every- thing! Be careful, but destroy all. I renoun...

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...hed as rear- guard. Sharp-eye, I soon had occasion to remark, had a skil- ful and quite professional way of opening doors—touched latches delicately, ... ...ed why not strike up? ‘ Ah, la’ads!’ said a negro sitting by the door, ‘gib the jebblem a darnse. Tak’ yah pardlers, jebblem, for ‘um quad-rill.’ This... ...e hostelry which no man possessed of a penny was ever known to pass in warm weather. Before its entrance, are certain pleasant, trimmed limes; likewis... ...rited as in the genuine article, and might be as easily murdered, with the placid reputation of having merely gone down to the sea-side. But, the many... ...ondly, that he eat a penny ice. Thirdly, that he get himself photographed. Then do I speculate, What have those seam-worn artists been who stand at th... ...g up a stout position on four legs. Approaching this drum and looking over it, I found two boys behind it (it was too much for one), and then I found ... ...’ Down by the Docks, the pawnbroker lends money on Union-Jack pocket-handkerchiefs, on watches with little ships pitching fore and aft on the dial, on... ... mockery when applied to them, Charles Dickens 260 and the crow of the lord and master has been a mere de- jected case of croup. Carts have I seen, a... ... see in it?’ The point of the jest immediately became a sting, and stung my conscience. For my mind’s eye saw him stolid, frigid, perchance taking fro...

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...her gave me no money; I was to be fed, clothed, and stuffed with Latin and Greek, for a sum agreed on. During my school life I came in contact with ov... ...meant something to the under- standing while they charmed the eye; just as musical melo- dies awaken memories in hearts that are loving and beloved. I... ...ans that integrity, loyalty, honor, and courtesy are the safest and surest instruments for your success. In this selfish world you will find many to t... ... child. Moreover my servants torment me; blockheads who take my French for Greek! When our fortune was finally remade inch by inch, and I had some rel...

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...ference, implied by the names, and the peculiar duties of each, were alike Greek to me. Why was not the “off ox” called the “in ox?” Where and what is... ...mance is strictly southern. It supplies the place of a violin, or of other musical instru- ments, and is played so easily, that almost every farm has ... ...ying accompaniments of the system. Wherever slavery is found, these horrid instruments are also found. Whether on the coast of Africa, among the savag... ...ti- vating and adorning the fair fields of our country, may yet become the instruments of terror, desolation, and death, throughout our borders. It wa...

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...onnected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light. The labours of men of genius, however ... ...nd of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments, which pro cured me great esteem and admiration at the unive... ...aster in The Vicar of Wakefield: `I have ten thousand florins a year without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.’ But his affec tion for me at lengt... ... replied by pronouncing, in a sweet accent, the name of Felix. Her voice was musical but unlike that of either of my friends. On hearing this word, Fe... ... was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me. Filled with dreary imaginati... ...hed from land Frankenstein 158 by its superior wildness and ruggedness. The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills of ...

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...edle-work, supplied the place of chairs in this apartment, which contained musical instruments, embroidery frames, and other articles for ladies’ past... ...k, supplied the place of chairs in this apartment, which contained musical instruments, embroidery frames, and other articles for ladies’ pastime. Bes... ..., a chapter of the Septuagint, and, moreover, having had his lesson in the Greek T estament.” “Ay,” said his mother, “and I have sewn a sprig of witch... ...planets, curiously intermingled with talismanical characters and scraps of Greek and Hebrew. In the midst were some Latin verses from a cabalistical a... ... light-hearted mirth and tiptoe jollity. The mu- sicians preluded on their instruments—the minstrels hummed their songs—the licensed jester whooped be... ...look ye, there is another— a very learned man, I promise you, and can vent Greek and Hebrew as fast as I can Thieves’ Latin he has an humour of sympat... ...in frames. Twentie-three cardes, [That is charts.] or maps of coun- tries. Instruments. (I shall give two specimens.) An instrument of organs, regall,...

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...uckled on, burdens were adjusted, the voices of drivers and riders sounded musically. Some of the earliest had even al- ready resumed their journey; a... ...te fan (being then seated at her dressing- table with her armoury of cruel instruments about her, most of them reeking from the heart of Sparkler), an... ... one piece, pair of gaudy vases of very artificial flowers; between them a Greek warrior with his helmet off, sacrificing a clock to the Genius of Fra... ... said Rigaud, tapping her on the arm, as if his cruel hand were sounding a musical in- strument, ‘I perceive I interest you. I perceive I awaken 339 ...

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...e Egypt! He sits there waiting for the sunlight; I here, and readier to be musical than you think. I can at any rate be impartial; and do but fix your... ...s a gain. You do actually accomplish a resonant imi- tation of the various instruments; they sing out as your two hands command them—trumpet, flute, d... ...dexterous trickery and imi- tation sounds. Then for the difference of real instruments from clever shams! Oh, ay, one will set your organ going; that ... ...the mighty metropolitan as are the fife and bugle boys practising on their instruments round melancholy outskirts of garrison towns with the regimenta... ....” … I can confess my sight to be imperfect: but will you ever do so?’ Her musical voice in Italian charmed his hearing. ‘What poet was that you quote... ...r through, and felt the deficiency or the contrariety in him, as surely as musical ears are pained by a discord that they require no touchstone 353 G... ...t. Both the men laughed at the constant employment she gave them among the Greek islands in furnishing her severely accurate accounts of sea-fights an...

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...t less triumphant than it is sorrowful, namely, that amongst God’s holiest instruments for the elevation of human nature is “mutual slaughter” amongst... ...theless I cite them in honor, as capable of the holiest justification. The instruments rise in grandeur, carnage and mutual slaughter rise in holiness... ...artyrdom on behalf of man’s most saintly in- terests. In proportion as the instruments for upholding or retrieving such saintly interests should come ... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...nd when she was *Falsely, because poxphuxeos rarely, perhaps, means in the Greek use what we mean properly by purple, and could not mean it in the Pin... ...t the purpureus of the ancients might have been evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is al... ...uth is, colors were as loosely and latitudinarially dis- tinguished by the Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere. ... ...pital disadvantage, in my eyes, that its chapel possessed no organ, and no musical ser- vice. But any other choice would have driven me to an in- stan... ...daily. They mix as equal partakers in the same amusements of races, balls, musical assemblies, with the baronets (or elite of the gentry); with the la...

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...t Boughs Alone....541 The Dead Emperor............................541 As the Greek’s Signal Flame.............541 The Dismantled Ship.................... ...ge! Warblings under the sun, usher’d as now, or at noon, or setting, Strains musical flowing through ages, now reaching hither, I take to your reckles... ...each other, The youth lies awake in the cedar roof’d garret and harks to the musical rain, The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the H... ...At the close of his crowded course.) Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems, Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Sc... ...nd stated, Christ divine having studied long, I see reminiscent to day those Greek and Germanic systems, See the philosophies all, Christian churches ... ..., I hear fierce French liberty songs, I hear of the Italian boat sculler the musical recitative of old poems, I hear the locusts in Syria as they stri... ...nd cornices?) All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments, It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe no... ... is latent music yet in France, floods of it, O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them, O ... ...r cry, the doctor’s shouted orders or calls, The glisten of the little steel instruments catching the glint of the torches, These I resume as I chant,...

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...tters: Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he... ...It has a very fine organ, which, at evening prayer, accompanied with other instruments, is delightful. In the suburb to the west, joined to the city b... ...ord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford, whose lady composed the following Greek and Latin verses, and had them engraved on the marble:- How was I sta... ...wing things worthy of observation:- I. The Royal Library, well stored with Greek, Latin, Italian and French books; amongst the rest, a little one in F... ...ility at tilts and tournaments, hung up here for a memorial. IX. Different instruments of music, upon one of which two persons may perform at the same... ... the Bible curiously written upon parchment; an artificial sphere; several musical instruments; in the tapestry are represented negroes riding upon el... ...le curiously written upon parchment; an artificial sphere; several musical instruments; in the tapestry are represented negroes riding upon elephants.... ...ters so with silver, gold, and jewels, as to dazzle one’s eyes, there is a musical instrument made all of glass, except the strings. Afterwards we wer...

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...d Clara Wieck —and all Ger- mans, generally speaking. Schmucke was a great musical com- poser doomed to remain a music master, so utterly did his char... ...ain a music master, so utterly did his character lack the audacity which a musical genius needs if he is to push his way to the front. A German’s naiv... ... first meeting, Pons had just received that marshal’s baton of the unknown musical composer— an appointment as conductor of an orchestra. It had come ... ... saxhorn, and the like. If the Germans cannot draw harmony from the mighty instruments of Liberty, yet to play all instruments of music comes to them ... ...eir ideas, and said the obvious thing, after the manner of a cho- rus in a Greek play. He did not dare to give free play to the artist’s originality, ... ...state of health. It was a first performance of a piece in which Schmucke’s instruments were all required. “The old gentleman is failing,” said the flu... ...owers of the prose writer; Pindar alone could give it forth to humanity in Greek that should rekindle the dying warmth of friendship in the world. Put... ...ner symphonies, of that heavenly music for which Saint Cecile let fall her instruments, he was at once Beethoven and Paganini, creator and interpreter... ...ustice of the peace said gently, addressing Schmucke. But the re- mark was Greek to Schmucke; he gazed in dismay at his three visitors. “We have come ...

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... voice: “O Jack, give me a cigarette.” A handsome face, dark, Latin smile, musical fingers strong. I waded suddenly through a group of gendarmes (they... ...tal white ears tried to hide themselves. The face, a cross between classic Greek and Jew, had a Reynard expression, something distinctly wily and perf... ...t his technique, but the fear of contamina- tion which made me avoid these instruments of hygiene. 93 e e cummings Not that I shaved to excess. On th... ...s personal and exclusive use. All this time he has been singing loudly and musically the following sumptu- ously imaginative ditty: “mEEt me tonIght... ...ay distinguished, circle. Or: I shall describe, briefly , Apollyon and the instruments of his power, which instruments are three in number: Fear, Wome... ...ed to the unimaginable mean- ness of his will by means of the three potent instruments in question all within the sweating walls of La Ferté—that was ... ... palish, foppish, undersized, prominent-nosed creature who affected a deep musical voice and the cut of whose belted raincoat gave away his profession...

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...ough-hewn genius were to seize hold of these diverse associations. All the instruments of this Companionism are well-nigh blind. From town to town the... ...ne?” “The deuce! the deuce!” said Jacquet, repeating, as it were, the same musical note. “I have two children and a wife.” Jules pressed his friend’s ... ... on all sides the emblems of professions, and every style of art,—Moorish, Greek, Gothic,—friezes, ovules, paintings, vases, guardian-angels, temples,... ...hion?” Among these wandering creations some belong to the spe- cies of the Greek Hermae; they say nothing to the soul; they are there, and that is all...

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... the rebec that he set in the hands of some lady of the land, drank in the musical notes of her ballad, and in the twilight by the gothic arch above t... ... is invested. There was a murmur of admiration, which vibrated like a soft musical note. Wine had not taken love for traveling com- panion; instead of... ... feared her. She was like some colossal statue fallen from the height of a Greek temple, so grand when seen afar, too roughly hewn to be seen anear. A... ...at the sight of Rastignac, and came towards us with a gracious smile and a musically-uttered compliment, pre- pared no doubt beforehand, for me. Our f... ... on without appearing to hear her words: “‘My piano is one of Erard’s best instruments; and you must take it. Pray accept it without hesitation; I rea... ...ow grown scanty, curled about his temples with a refinement of vanity. The Greek cap that he wore was pulled to one side by the weight of its tassel; ...

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... activity applies to getting through speech or reading the idea of, say, a Greek helmet, where no direct use of any kind enters in. What shared activi... ...stand are combined. Thus the words in which a child learns about, say, the Greek helmet originally got a meaning (or were understood) by use in an act... ...helmet has its use. For the time being, the one who understands the words “Greek helmet” becomes mentally a partner with those who used the helmet. He... ... their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purposes. Who, then, shall conduct education so th... ...the case where mind is not concerned with the physical manipulation of the instruments but with what one intends to write, the case is the same. There... ...e action of the piano directed to accomplish the purpose of the piano as a musical instrument. It is the same with “pedagogical” method. The only diff... ...ano may produce, and the variations in technique required in the different musical results secured. Method in any case is but an effective way of empl... ... knows of music the more he can perceive the possibilities of the inchoate musical impulses of a child. Organized subject matter represents the ripe f... ... case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge. For he ...

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...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with contin ual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glocken 32 SARTOR RESARTUS s... ...quite sickly, and disproportioned to its breadth? We find, moreover, that his Greek and Latin were “mechanically” taught; He brew scarce even mechanic... ...tual hand grips with Destiny herself, may have comported himself among these Musical and Literary dilettanti of both sexes, like a hungry lion invited... ...t engaged in Æsthetic Tea, yet in trustful evening conversation, and perhaps Musical Coffee, for we hear of “harps and pure voices making the stillnes... ...t is not mad? Nevertheless, one may still murmur audibly, or in the original Greek if that suit thee better: ‘Whoso can look on Death will start at no... ...was trifling.” Thou foolish Teufelsdr¨ ockh How could it else? Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of Man is an Action, and no... ...ts. Silent are they, but expressive in their silence: the past witnesses and instruments of Woe and Joy, of Passions, Virtues, Crimes, and all the fat...